Lockdown one year on: What have we learned?
Ashley Bautista Domingo
One year on since Boris Johnson announced the UK’s first lockdown due to Covid-19 and here we still are. It’s been a chaotic, unpredictable and scary time and it’s not…
Ashley Bautista Domingo
Violence against the Asian community is unacceptable
Racism against the Asian-American community made headlines last week and social media has seen #StopAsianHate go viral after a white man shot and killed eight people, including six Asian women…
Grammys 2021: They never seem to get it right
The 2021 Grammys were the talk of the town with fans angry at the major awards’ apparent unfairness and lack of diversity since the nominations were published in November last…
No graduation ceremony for KU class of 2021: The River reacts
Kingston University has added itself to the list of UK universities postponing their student's graduation ceremonies with an email sent to all KU students delivering the news. "It would be…
The pressure of being a first-generation university student
As good as being the first one in your family to achieve something sounds, there's a lot of pressure behind that comes with it. Neither of my parents had the…
KU former lecturer could become Catalonia’s first female president
Separatist parties won more than half the seats in this week’s elections in Catalonia in northern Spain. Among them was JxCat (Together for Catalonia) which recently selected former KU lecturer…
The best tracks to listen to while studying
Procrastination must come to an end. Assignments are piling up and exams are around the corner. Revising and writing a three-thousand-word essay is not fun, but music can somehow make…
Why international students are coming back despite the lockdown
In January the government said students should not return to university until at least March 8 and any update on that won’t be known until Boris Johnson addresses the nation…
Single for Valentine’s Day? Here’s what to do
You might be locked up and out of love but being single on Valentine’s Day isn’t the end of the world. Just because you don’t have someone special to share…
I’m done: Thoughts from an angry Southeast-Asian female
As a Filipino female in her early twenties with a prosperous future ahead and living in a democratic country, it’s disheartening to constantly see people from my community become a…